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FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS







PRESERVING THE ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
1995 FWOC Resolution No. 17:

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska has been rightly called "The North American Serengeti".  It is the feeding and nesting ground for millions of migratory birds.  The Refuge provides the most important polar bear denning habitat in the entire U.S.  There are Arctic wolves, musk oxen, wolverines, grizzly bears, arctic foxes, and many more animals that rely on the Refuge for food and for their breeding grounds.  Most spectacular of all is the migration of the Porcupine caribou herd of 180,000 animals that sweeps from Canada each spring onto the summer feeding and calving grounds of the Refuge.
The livelihood and culture of the Gwich'n people and other native people in Alaska and Canada are very dependent on the Porcupine caribou herd.

In the biological heart of the Refuge, oil companies want to explore and drill for oil, which could lead to the ultimate destruction of this fragile habitat and the animals that desperately need this habitat untouched to survive in this harsh unforgiving land!  Alaska does not need another EXXON Valdez-type disaster!
The Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs goes on record in opposition to oil exploration and drilling in the Arctic national Wildlife Refuge and calls upon Congress to act in setting aside the Refuge as wilderness to preserve its integrity in perpetuity.
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FWOC members and member clubs are urged to send copies of the above resolution, along with any comments of their own on this issue, to the congressional representatives of the western states and also to the Governor of Alaska.  Those members who are stockholders in oil-exploration or oil-producing companies should consider conveying their opposition to opening up the Arctic Refuge to development to those firms.




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